UN Calls On Davos Participants To Do More For Kids Affected By Violence, Poverty, Disease

January 22, 2015 2:26 PM

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At its largest gathering to date, the World Economic Forum is expected to be “more serious” than recent years because of the pressing economic, health and terror turmoil. But the U.N. wants to make sure that the devastating threats against children aren’t left out of the conversation.

More than 2,500 participants are expected to attend the five-day event in Davos, Switzerland, where business leaders, politicians and Nobel laureates are tackling such heavy topics as deepening global inequality and declining trust in government. But experts say that such grave issues as Ebola and I...